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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"A Deadly Mix in Benghazi" NY Times (but not al qaeda terrorists)
A Deadly Mix in Benghazi By David D. Kirkpatrick at the NY Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/?emc=edit_na_20131228#/?chapt=0
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The investigation by The Times shows that the reality in Benghazi was different, and murkier, than either of those story lines suggests. Benghazi was not infiltrated by Al Qaeda, but nonetheless contained grave local threats to American interests. The attack does not appear to have been meticulously planned, but neither was it spontaneous or without warning signs.
Mr. Abu Khattala had become well known in Benghazi for his role in the killing of a rebel general, and then for declaring that his fellow Islamists were insufficiently committed to theocracy. He made no secret of his readiness to use violence against Western interests. One of his allies, the leader of Benghazis most overtly anti-Western militia, Ansar al-Shariah, boasted a few months before the attack that his fighters could flatten the American Mission. Surveillance of the American compound appears to have been underway at least 12 hours before the assault started.
The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters. Looters and arsonists, without any sign of a plan, were the ones who ravaged the compound after the initial attack, according to more than a dozen Libyan witnesses as well as many American officials who have viewed the footage from security cameras.
The C.I.A. Annex
A 20-person team from the Central Intelligence Agency is in the compound known as the Annex, about a half-mile from the mission, where the security officers Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty are later killed.
The Benghazi-based C.I.A. team had briefed Mr. McFarland and Mr. Stevens as recently as the day before the attack. But the American intelligence efforts in Libya concentrated on the agendas of the biggest militia leaders and the handful of Libyans with suspected ties to Al Qaeda, several officials who received the briefings said. Like virtually all briefings over that period, the one that day made no mention of Mr. Abu Khattala, Ansar al-Shariah or the video ridiculing Islam, even though Egyptian satellite television networks popular in Benghazi were already spewing outrage against it.
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"A Deadly Mix in Benghazi" NY Times (but not al qaeda terrorists) (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2013
OP
You think the idiot republicans will now appologise for jumping to false conclusions?
DCBob
Dec 2013
#1
I know. Seems the USA focusing on terrorists like al qaeda is what let the actual
applegrove
Dec 2013
#2
DCBob
(24,689 posts)1. You think the idiot republicans will now appologise for jumping to false conclusions?
Nope... they will simple claim its the liberal media backing Obama again.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)2. I know. Seems the USA focusing on terrorists like al qaeda is what let the actual
perpetrators free to attack in Benghazi.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)4. Rick Santorum's frothy mix in Bunghazi...
n/t
Cha
(297,323 posts)3. thanks applegrove.